Specific Viruses Detected in Nigerian Children in Association with Acute Respiratory Disease

Table 1

Distribution of viral pathogens according to the age of the patients.

Age (years)	N	Virus Neg	Adeno	HBoV	HEV* total	HEV* HRV-	HMPV	HRV	Infl. A	Infl. B	Infl. C	PIV1	PIV2	PIV3	RSV
<1	132	30	8	4	12	5	2	47	1	0	4	6	6	33	1
1-2	40	8	4	1	4	1	0	17	2	1	4	3	4	8	0
2-3	24	4	0	0	2	0	2	6	0	0	2	4	8	1	0
3-4	7	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	1	1	2	0
4-5	9	4	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
>5	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
no age	31	9	0	1	4	1	1	12	0	0	1	1	2	5	0
Total	246	57	12	6	23	7	7	87	3	2	12	16	21	50	1

*Our HEV test can react with some HRV strains. “Total” shows the number of all specimens testing positive in the HEV assay, “HRV-” those where the HRV test was negative (“true HEV positives”).